August 2006
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 39m
English
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About the Authors
Jim McCarthy
Jim McCarthy has participated in the creation and shipping of over twenty-five PC software products.
Jim first started programming on a TRS-80 Model I in 1976, with Level I BASIC. Not too long after, he abandoned practically every other interest in life to pursue his growing passion of programming personal computers. A couple of years after his experience with the Trash-80 and BASIC, Jim loaded up a camper with a computer, a BDS C compiler, and books by Kernighan and Ritchie, Plauger, and Knuth and took off for the woods. He stayed in the woods for weeks, working night and day to teach himself “real programming.”
The cathode ray tube cast an eerie shadow in the dark forest, and the high-tech hum of the computer ...